World Cup 2014: Portraits of footballers who have all scored in The World Cup

Two nights ago was the first game of this World Cup at Brazil’s iconic Maracana took place between Bosnia on Argentina; on 13 July the eyes of the world will be on the stadium once again for the showpiece final. In terms of reach, anticipation and sporting significance, few events eclipse the World Cup Final and this sense of it being special feeds into Michael Donald’s football-themed project. He tracked down the 35 men still alive who have scored in this all-important game to film, photograph and interview them. Some like Pele and Sir Geoff Hurst are bona fide football legends, others include a bathroom salesman and an insurance broker.

This project is about much more than football; it’s about the changing nature of sport in society and how fate, history and individual excellence combine to create heroes, willing or otherwise.

The photographs are currently on display at the Proud Archivist gallery space in east London as part of its World Cup celebrations until 13 July.

“Usually the model is freezing on shoots… this time it was the other way around,” says photographer Mirka Laura Severa on her latest project for SZ Magazin. Asked to concept a fashion shoot for down jackets, Mirka looked for an unusual way to showcase the products, and came up with the idea to use snowmen as models. The result is a hilarious series of images depicting well-dressed snowpeople frolicking, posing and taking selfies in a winter wonderland.

Brooklyn-based photographer Roe Ethridge has become known for exploring the fake and plastic nature of photography and in his work he often adapts existing images by adding new interpretations of reality or shoots highly stylised images inspired by classical compositions.

In 1982, distinguished photographer David Bailey published NW1 a photographic series of fading areas of London which David had inhabited for almost 30 years. As the iconic and recognisable buildings closed their doors, the photographer famed for his portraits, pointed his lens towards the decaying architectural beauty.

We tend not to notice stuff until something’s wrong with it. How aware are you of the lights in your house until a bulb goes out? When was the last time you thought about your pancreas? Flaws, problems and incongruities are what make us conscious of a thing’s existence. Without aberration, we don’t just lose our sense of normal, we lose our sense entirely.